-Seventy Four- Manasseh

Manasseh

Today’s Reading: 2 Chronicles 33:1-13

Focal Verse: 2 Chronicles 33:13b

…then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

Manasseh was bad.  I mean really, really bad.
He built altars to pagan gods that his father had broken down.  He made idols.  He murdered his children by sacrificing them to false gods.  He practiced witchcraft and consulted mediums.  He set up an idol in the temple of God.  He convinced his people to do more evil than even the pagan nations.
Sounds like a hopeless cause, doesn’t it?  The Bible tells us that God spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.
God didn’t see them as a hopeless cause.  He wanted to give them grace.  They refused it, so He allowed them the consequences of their evil.  Manasseh was carried off.
But God didn’t leave them there.  Manasseh finally realized his wickedness and repented.  God, in His grace, heard him and brought him back to his kingdom.
Manasseh saw His grace.  Then he knew “that the LORD was God”.

Have you stopped praying for someone, thinking they are a hopeless cause?  They aren’t a hopeless cause to God.  Continue praying and allow Him to work in their circumstances.

You aren’t a hopeless cause either.  You can repent right now and receive God’s grace. http://thegracechronicles-penny.blogspot.com/2011/11/behold-i-stand-at-door-and-knock.html